Warning to Endicott E-book
Author: Roger Williams
Genre: History / Biography, Religion / Mythology / Sacred
Williams, Roger (c. 1600-1683) English-born, early American religious
leader and advocate of toleration who founded the colony of Rhode
Island. His radical religious views and his defense of the Indians
resulted in his expulsion from Massachusetts. A courageous thinker,
historian Carl Van Doren called Williams "the sincerest Christian
among many who desired to be Christians."
A Warning to Endicott (1652) An excerpt from "The Bloody Tenent Yet
More Bloody," Williams' response to John Cotton's reply to "The Bloody
Tenent of Persecution." The "Warning" is a letter to John Endicott, a
zealous puritan who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony (1628-1630). "Sir, I must be humbly bold to say," Williams
writes, "that 'tis impossible for any man or men to maintain their
Christ by their sword, and to worship a true Christ!"
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